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The International Drug Policy Consortium is a global network of 193 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academic institutions, professional networks, and think tanks including the Drug Policy Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, and Global Exchange, that supports broad liberalization of drug policies.
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The United States Impact Investing Alliance is a left-of-center coalition that advocates for environmental, social, governance activism (ESG) with funding from major left-leaning foundations. The alliance is a project of the New Venture Fund (NVF), a major pass-through funder and fiscal sponsor in the multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network
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The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) is a nonpartisan membership organization that is concerned with “dangers to civilized society,” as outlined in its statement of aims. To this end, MPS supports classical economic and political liberalism, and opposes government expansion, trade unions, business monopolies, and inflation.
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Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) is an influence group funded by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
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The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) facilitates environmental research about climate change. It currently has offices in Norway, China, India, Germany, Sweden, South Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. 1 The organization is
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The Philadelphia Society is a right-of-center membership organization that intends to strengthen the intellectual foundations, principles and traditions of what it calls a “free and ordered society.” The Philadelphia Society allows for an exchange of ideas through writing and discussion on a range of issues that include economics, policy, religion,
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Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for and reports on freedom of expression and freedom of information in Canada. The organization lists its work in three categories: advocacy and policy work in Canada, international campaigns, and funding programs.
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Polk Brothers Foundation (Polk Brothers) is a grantmaking foundation based in Chicago. Polk Brothers Foundation was established by the owners of the Polk Brothers Furniture Company to provide grants and assistance in education, health care, and the arts. Polk Brothers has funded left-of-center racial-policy-related programs and organizations. History The Polk
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Person
Paul Tudor Jones is an American billionaire investor and philanthropist. He is the founder of the Tudor Investment Company and conducts his philanthropic work through the Robin Hood Foundation and Everglades Foundation. Tudor Jones has historically supported both Republican and Democratic politicians, and has praised both President Donald
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Person
Paul Sciarra is one of the founders of social media outlet Pinterest and was its first CEO; he later became executive chairman of electric aircraft maker Joby Aviation. Sciarra’s time at Pinterest was limited but he maintained a stake in the company and gained wealth when the company went public.
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The Marble Freedom Trust is a right-of-center organization founded in 2020 by Leonard Leo, a conservative legal activist and former executive vice president of the Federalist Society. Its largest known source of funding came from a donation of company shares by Barre Seid, an electronics manufacturing mogul, that
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Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies (RDCY) is a Chinese financial research think tank. It produces reports, videos, commentaries, and hosts events to facilitate research of China’s economy and recommend insights to Chinese government officials.
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The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is a left-of-center organization that facilitates learning and interaction between policymakers and state officials on health policy issues. NASHP is a project of the Center for Health Policy Development.
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Known as the Bureau of Investigation until 1935, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created within the Department of Justice in 1908, in defiance of a prior refusal by Congress to fund it. One lawmaker had predicted that the Bureau would become a “central police or spy system
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Marin AIDS Project (MAP) was founded in 1984 by Janie Spahr as the Marin AIDS Support Network. MAP focused on providing support services to individuals with HIV/AIDS in Marin County, California. In 2015 MAP merged with the Spectrum LGBT Center (Spectrum), which provided support services to LGBT youth and seniors
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The Wege Foundation is a family foundation started by the family that owns Steelcase Inc., a publicly traded office-furniture company. 1 The foundation focuses on funding areas that include diversity, equity, and inclusion; the environment; education;
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a global health policy agency operating under the United Nations. Established in 1945, the WHO had a largely positive reputation around the world for supporting public health efforts, but the organization has faced numerous criticisms during the COVID-19 pandemic for mishandling policy and
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Government Agency
The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO) which holds an annual meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHA elects the director general of the WHO, determines policies, and allocates its budget. The WHA currently has 194 members. In May 2022, the WHA met
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Non-profit
Center for Economic Democracy (CED) is a radical-left nonprofit in Boston that espouses local community economic control, favors certain racial and ethnic groups in hiring practices, espouses that capitalism is wrong, and wants to re-make the country post-capitalism. CED has called for wealth redistribution, advanced the notion the country continues
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Non-profit
Minding the Campus is an opinion website focused on exposing and finding approaches to reduce the divide that exists between American college campuses and American society, especially as it relates to intellectual exchange. 1
